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To: Ilaine who wrote (15258)	3/27/2006 4:24:20 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 543029

I guess you'd have to be a hypochondriac to think it was fun. I think it's fun but I'm not a hypochondriac. I probably wouldn't see my doctor at all if she didn't hold me hostage on med refills. I really get a kick out of the tests, particularly the ones with lots of flashing lights. Seriously, many of the tests involve monitors situated where you can see what the professionals see. I find them all very interesting. And I find the processes interesting from an operations research perspective. My c-reactive protein is 33. High normal is 3. All my obscure heart disease indicators are sky high--fibrinogen, lipoprotein-a, homocysteine. Best I can tell, they don't have a clue what any of it means except that they all correlate to heart disease. Google high c-reactive protein and you'll find a picture of a doctor scratching his head. I don't give any of these results much thought beyond finding it all mildly interesting. And I figure more data is better than less data, as a general rule. I'd be surprised if any HMO does these tests, certainly not as part of routine screening.